Hi,
How do I distinguish between positive and negative values.
This is part of a merchant batch script.
The values are between the "a" and "z"
I want to make the refunds (negative values) go to one file
And the sales (positive values) got to another
Regards
Stuart Clark
# start of file test
30000034364717283459322a-15.32zM 042001H
30000045434551648534245a243.56zM 040532H
30000053232540927543293a-2.45zM 040332H
# end of file test
open (IN,"test") || die "Could not open the test file\n";
open (OUT,">output_positive") || die "Error could not create the
output file\n";
open (OUT2,">output_negative") || die "Error could not create the
output file\n";
while (<IN>) {
print OUT if /a([\d.]+)z/; # this bit needs to determine the positive
values
print OUT2 if /a([\d.]+)z/; # this bit needs to determine the negative
values
}
close(IN) || die "Error cannot close test file\n";
close(OUT) || die "Error cannot close output file\n";
close(OUT2) || die "Error cannot close output2
file\n";
# output_positive file must look like this
30000045434551648534245a243.56zM 040532H
# output_negative file must look like this
30000034364717283459322a-15.32zM 042001H
30000053232540927543293a-2.45zM 040332H
